Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] had been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Eddy had been wiped clean . |
| 2 | This time poor old Simpson had been caught off-balance by events and had sounded distinctly agitated on the telephone . |
| 3 | It had happened before that England had been sluiced clean of every significant esoteric and thaumaturgist . |
| 4 | In December 1991 Keating had been found guilty in a Californian state court on 17 counts of fraud [ see p. 38669 ] . |
| 5 | Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) , which had also claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 [ see pp. 37265-66 ] , and which in late October had been declared illegal in Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 6 | Kicking her shoes off in her hotel bedroom , hanging up her Chanel suit , removing her earrings , she could n't help feeling glad — sorry though she undoubtedly was , of course — that poor Felicity had been laid low with the chicken-pox . |
| 7 | By the end of 1989 Nicaragua had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of arrears of US$150 million accumulated on loans of $160 million from that body . |
| 8 | By the end of 1989 Honduras had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of having accumulated arrears of US$80,000,000 on loans of $400 million from this body . |